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Martin Dunsford
Martin Dunsford (1744–1807) was an English merchant and Dissenter, known as an antiquarian and radical politician. His work ''Memoirs of the Town and Parish of Tiverton'' is noted as an attempt to write of the town as a whole community.
==Life==
He was the son of Martin Dunsford (1711–1763) who manufactured serge in Tiverton, Devon, having a large workshop created from a row of houses, and a workforce of over 50. His mother was Anne Stone. Educated at Blundell's School, he went into his father's business at age 13. He lived at Villa Franca, Park Road, now a listed building.〔(britishlistedbuildings.co.uk, ''Villa Franca, Tiverton''. )〕
Dunsford is described in Lewis Namier's ''The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III'' as the leader of a movement in Tiverton for extending the local franchise, at the end of the 18th century. Holding local political office, he opposed the Ryder family who controlled the parliamentary elections in the town. In 1781 he set up a petition to Parliament, presented through James Townsend, for greater electoral rights.〔 The political interests of Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby, and his ally Sir John Duntze, 1st Baronet, were not in fact threatened in any practical sense by the Dissenter faction led by Dunsford. The town clerk monitored those activities, and his supporters were branded as Jacobins in the 1790s.〔(historyofparliamentonline.org, ''Tiverton''. )〕
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